Last Saturday there was a renewal of rioting in Berlin.
A butcher reduced the wages of one of his assistants, who seems to have taken unauthorised holidays as the fancy seized him. The assistant left his work, taking with him some fellow- assistants, and thus organising a little strike. Next they proceeded to organise a boycott of the shop—it is curious how the idea of the boycott is gaining ground everywhere— and this caused a good deal of excitement in the quarter.
The police cleared the street, and having done so were attacked from the rear at both ends of the street. As in the Moabit riots, stones and bottles were freely thrown. Several persons were injured. The next day the police prevented rioting by picketing several streets, but the very slenderness of the pretext for the trouble is an interesting symptom of popular unrest in Berlin.
